Archive for 'Strategy' Category
Toyota ventures into the unknown.
3 July 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A recent article in the trade rag - Tooling & Production highlights why I think that Toyota is a company worthy of emulation. The article titled - Makeover will transform Japanese plant into model of innovation, highlights the recent […]
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The process of innovation
15 June 2007Even stodgy bankers are getting into the act!!
As I’ve been getting settled here at the bank in my new role, its been interesting to see the way that my colleagues -
both in Group IT, and elsewhere in the group - have reacted to the advent of an innovation team.
So says James Gardner!
Anecdotally speaking, I would […]
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Surviving the China Rip Tide - Recommendations??
13 June 2007In the last post - Surviving the China Rip Tide - How to profit from the Supply Chain Bottleneck, I reviewed a report (BCG Report : Surviving the China Rip Tide - How to profit from the Supply Chain Bottleneck) by BCG about certain problems that are cropping up in the China centric supply chain.
In […]
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Surviving the China Rip Tide - How to profit from the Supply Chain Bottleneck
1 June 2007The only hope for these companies is that all their competitors will make the same mistake.
So assert George Stalk Jr. and Kevin Waddell of the Boston Consulting Group in their report titled Surviving the China Rip Tide - How to profit from the Supply Chain Bottleneck. Alright, I’m laughing a little now. Why? Because I […]
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Supply Chain Network Optimization and Competitive Advantage - Part 2
24 April 2007In Supply Chain Network Optimization and Competitive Advantage - Part 1, I began exploring the notion articulated by SC Digest’s editor Dan Gilmore in a recent post about Supply Chain Network Optimization and Competitive Advantage. In the article Mr. Gilmore goes on to describe how a few companies are adopting this particular aspect of Supply […]
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Supply Chain Network Optimization and Competitive Advantage - Part 1
15 April 2007SC Digest’s editor Dan Gilmore has a recent post about Supply Chain Network Optimization and Competitive Advantage and how a few companies are adopting this particular aspect of Supply Chain Management in their processes so much so that it maybe a source of competitive advantage.
While I am quite convinced about the need for strategic planning […]
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Different Priorities - Investment Prioritization for Manufacturing Software
15 December 2006IndustryWeek reports on investment prioritization for manufacturing operations software and how it varies across different industry segments in a recent article titled - Different Priorities.
According to the report,
# In chemicals, 28% of the manufacturing budget will be applied to advanced process control and simulation.
# In aerospace and defense, 50% of the manufacturing budget will be […]
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